WliE 0fmklin Hftn
Qht ^jiaWant>? IRacoman
VOlTlxiV-NO. 11 FRANKLIN. N. C.THURgPAY, MAECW 17, |H?
Calendar
Of The Week'*
EVENTS
*
Data for this column should ncaoh
The Press by not ?later than noon
Tuesday. In order to keep the calendar
accurate, secretaries of organisations are
requested t o notify the newspaper
promptly of changes in ttoe time or
place of meetings.
THURSDAY, MUCH 11
6 p. m. ? Nequassa Chapter
No. 43, Order of the Eastern
Star, banquet at Panorama
Court.
7 p. m. ? Eastern Star regular
meeting at Slagle Memorial
building.
7:30 p. m. ? Post No. 109, Am
erican Legion, at Memorial
buldlng.
8 ; 30 p. m. ? Eastern Star In
stallation of officers at Memor
ial building..
FRIDAY
7 p. m. ? Troop No. 1, Boy
Soauts, at Memorial building.
SATURDAY
7:30 p. m. ? Teen Age club
party at Hotel Hearn.
8 p. m. ? Dance (American
Legion benefit) at Memorial
building.
MONDAY
10 a. m. ? Board of county
commissioners at courthouse.
7:30 p. m. ? Franklin Parent
Teacher association at the
school.
TUESDAY
10 a. m. ? 4-H Neighborhood
leaders at Agricultural building.
1 p. m. ? N. C. Little Sym
phony children's concert at
Friendship Tabernacle.
8 p. "iti. ? N. C. Little Sym
phony concert at Franklin Me
thodist church.
8 p. m. ? American Legion
Auxiliary at home of Mrs. H.
W. Cabe..
WEDNESDAY
7 p. m. ? Franklin Rotary
club at Memorial btftldlng.
7:30 p. m. ? Memorial Post
No. 7339, Veteran* of tiDreign
wars, at Agricultural building.
Graeber To Show Mories
On Blister Ruat Friday
R. W. Graeber, N. C. Exten
sion service forester, will be In
this county tomorrow (Friday)
and will show motion pictures
on blister rust control. The pic
tures, which adults aa well as
children are invited to see, will
be shown at Co wee school at 9
a. m.; at Slagle school at 2 p.
m.; and at HigdonvUle school
at 7:30 p. m.
?? ? I
Do You
Remember . . . ?
(Looking backward thmjii
the file* ?( The Trim)
54 TEARS AOO THIS WEEK
In the Legislature: An act
supplementary to an act Incor
porating the Ohio River, Frank
lin and Tidewater Railway Com
pany passed.
Prom an advertisement:
Champion SteelFrame "Cut
Out Disc" Harrow. 10 discs, 5
feet, with cleaners, dontoletres
&c. complete, $18 delivered to
your nearest depot. T. 8. Mor
rison, Ashevllle, N. C.
Doorkeeper W. R. Stallcup (of
Franklin) was presented with a
gold-headed cane by his assis
tants in the legislature, pages
and laboreres.
25 YEARS AGO
We congratulate our neighbor, I
Mr. John Corbln, on winning
one of the more important
prizes given at the poultry show
at Franklin? Prom Ellijay Items.
We, the undersigned merch
ants of Franklin, realizing that
time, strength, and health can
be conserved by early eloBting,
do hereby agree to dose our
stores to all customers promptly
at 7 o'clock, p. m., an all days
except Saturday*.
1* YEAB8 AGO
A message was receved Satur
day at WPA area headquarters
In Franklin stating that the
water and sewer extension pro
ject ha* been approved:
Locke Steppe is valedictorian
and Irene Wight is sakitator
lan of the graduating dm It
Otter Creek Ityh school.
ORCHESTRA TO PLAY HERE ? Above is a photograph of (he Noirth Carolina little Sytn
phony orchestra, which will give two ooncerts in Franklin, under the direction of Dr. Ranja
min Swalin, next Tuesday, March 22. The free matinee for Macon County school children is set
lor 1 p. m. at the Friendship Tabernacle, and the evening performance for Symphony members
will be given at I p. m. at the Franklin Method ist church.
VANRAALTETO
HOLDOPEN1NG
3 99 Gueiti Expected
At 'House Warming'
At Plant Here
The Van Raalte company
win bold a "house warming'
party at its Franklin plant,
which now employs more than
100 persons, Saturday evening
of next week.
Approximately 300 Invited
guests are expected to attend
the event, which Is in the na
ture of a formal opening of
the Van Raalte plant here. The
plant wm completed early last
year, and now has installed
10 huge and intricate machines
for the making of full-fashion
ed nylon hose.
In addition to the party in the
evening, It is tentatively planned
to open the ntamt sometime
earlier In the day? the hours
Some SO or 35 public officials
and civic and business leaden
here will be Invited to the even
lng "house warming", and i
score or more of officials o.
the company will be present
fin addition, each of the 11!
employes will attend the party
and each employe has the priv
liege of inviting one guest.
High officials of the Var,
Raalte company are on the pro
gram tor talks at the dinner
and employes will present twi
skits. Later, Bingo will be play
ed.
The dinner is to be preparec
by members of the Franklii
P.TA and served buffet style
P. T. A. and served by them at
the plant buffet style, the P. T.
A. having taken on the task as
a means of raising funds for its
work.
The Van Raalte company
started operations here In 1646,
when 12 employes were put
to work mending hosiery in a
room on the second floor of the
Leach building.
Work on one wing of the
East Franklin structure got un
der way later that year. Some
months after Its completion,
work was resumed and the pres
ent plant was completed early
in 1948.
In addition to hosiery, the
plant here also manufactures
women's dress gloves.
The knitting room, where the
10 big hosiery machines have
being Installed, is large enough
to accommodate exactly twice
that number of machines, but
the company has made no an
nouncement of its plans with
reference to the remaining
space.
Highlands Seniors Seek
Funds For Capital Trip
The senior class of the High
lands High school will sponsor
3 square dance at Helen's Barn
tomorrow (Friday) night at 8
o'clock, the proceeds to be ap
plied to a fund the class is
raising to finance a trip for
class members to Washington,
D. C.
Mrs. Finley To Join
Husband In Germany
Mrs. W. H. Finley and child
ren, Rebecca and Robert, will
leave Franklin about April 1 i
for Anderson, 8. C., where they
will visit relatives while await
ing orders to Mil for Europe
to join Major Unlay, who is <
stationed at Irdlnf, Qermany. ,
Symphony To Give Two
Concerts Here Tuesday
Asks Cooper atiort
In Making Tourist
Booklet Complete
The Franklin Chamber of
Commerce is preparing to
issue a new tourist booklet
listing accommodations in
and near Franklin,, and the
organization this week ask
ed the cooperation of the
public in making the list
ings complete and arcurate.
All persons who will take
tourists this summer ?
whether1 they operate a ho
tel or have a single room
for rent ? are asked to get
in touch with Frank I. Mur
ray, secretary, immediately.
Information about accom
modations can be forwarded
to Mr. Murray by mail or
he can be reached at Tele
phone No. 7403.
Club Members
Win High Rating* A t
Music Festival
Two of the nine members of
-he Franklin Junior Music club
vho entered the annual spflng
music festival in Asheville last
Saturday won top ratings for
heir performances. Four came
back home wih the second high
est rating, and three, with the
.hird highest.
Carelen Sorrells and Martha
Womack were given "superior"
at'rngs the highest given.
Beverly Stockton, Jo Ann
Henderson, Margaret Allison,
and Martha Ann Stockton won
the second high grade of "ex
cellent"..
And a rating of "very good"
was given Sarah Elizabeth
Parker, Edith Plemmons, and
Patricia Landruin.
All pupils who enter the fes
tival are graded on 10 different
points, and then given one of
five ratings, starting with "su
perior" and oomlng downward.
Each of the some 300 pupils
taking part gave two selections,
one required for his or her
classification, and one chosen by
the pupil.
The festival i.s sponsored by
the National Federation of Jun
ior Music clubs, and is open
only to members of federated
junior clubs.
Accompanying the Franklin
group to Asheville were Mrs.
Weimar Jones, club oounselor,
whose piano pupils the nine
Franklin entrants are, the Rev.
and Mrs. C. E. Parker, and Mrs.
Lester Henderson.
-
Membership Sales To End
Saturday ; Is Fourth
Season In Macon
The N. C. Little Symphony
orchestra, appearing in Frank
lin for its fourth successive
season, will give two concerts
here next Tuesday.
The orchestra will play at 1
p. m. at the Friendship taber
nacle In a free ooncert for Ma
con County school children. The
evening performance for adults
will be at the Franklin Metho
dist church at 8 o'clock that
evening.
Meanwhile, the local Symph
ony committee announced that
the campaign for memberships
will end Saturday, and that
thereafter admission to the eve
ning performance will be by
ticket only.. Tickets may be
bought, at a slight advance In
orice, at the door Tuesday even
teg, if and as long as seating
room remains. The church. has
a seating capacity of only 376,
?>r 400 at most.
Through Saturday, member
ships may be obtained at Per
ry's Drug store. General mem
berships are $2, plus tax.
While the matinee for school
children usually is referred to as
a "free concert", It is free only
to the children, it was pointed
out? not to the county. The or
chestra's fee tor that concert
Is $350, and the children's event
is made possible only through
the memberships taken by Ma
con County persons.
The tabernacle will seat 1,100,
which will make It possible tor
approximately one-third of the
PROGRAM ON PAGE 5
The profram (or thf N. C.
Little Symphony's eveninf
concert will be bound on
page 5. ,
elementary school children In
the county to be accommodat
ed. High school children may
attend the evening performance,
at a special student rate of $1,
plus tax.
In both performances, the 22
piece orchestra will be directed
?Continued on Page Six
Farm Students To Give
P. T. A. Program Monday
The Franklin school agricul
ture department, headed by E. J.
Whitmire, Jr., will conduct the
program at the February meet
ing of the Franklin Parent
Teacher association, it was an
nounced this week. The meeting
is set for next Monday even
ing at 7:30 o'clock at the school.
Mrs. C. N.. Dowdle,, the presi
dent, will preside.
1 36 Communities, Besides This One, Are Named Franklin 1 1 {
People here, when they go
away from home and are asked
where they live, say, "in Frank
lin".
But which Franklin?
There ore 37 communities in
the world named Franklin, ac
cording ta the Encyclopaedic
Britannica, 34 of them in the
ITnited States. They ranee in
size from Franklin. Alaska, the
to Franklin, Penna.,
the largest.
The other Franklins are in
Alshanw Arizona, Arkansas,
Oalt'ornin. Connecticut, OeoTln.
Mnho, Illinois. Indiana. Truwa,
Kansas, Kentucky, I/>ul#ftna,
Maine, dassachutts. Mich lean.
Mew Bnmn?hire, New Jersey,
Mew York, North Dakota, Ohio,
Tennessee. Texas, Vermont, Vlr
Ilnla, We?t Virginia, and WU
consin, besides the two in Min
nesota ? one in Renville county
end one In St. Louis county ?
one in Manitoba, Canada, and
the one in Tasmania, Australia.
Highlands, the name of Macon
county's only other incorpor
ated town, is far less popular
as a name. The U. 8. Postal
Ouide lists only two others in
the United States, one in New
Jersey and one in Texas. There
are, however, 13 post offices
in the United States with the
same name, minus the last S?
Highland.
Eight post offices in this
county due In some cases, no
doubt, to the fact they have
kept the Cherokee names orig
inally given the localities? are
unique as to ruime. There Is
only one Aquone In the entire
United States, only one Cul
iasaja, only one Gneiss, only
one Leatherm&n, only one Rain
bow Springs, only one Scaly,
only one West's Mill, and only
one Telllco ? though Tennes
see has a Telllco Plains.
There are, however, three
Ottos besides that In Macon
County. They are In Indiana,
New York, and Texas,
And post offices bearing the
name Prentiss are in Kentucky.
Maine, and Mississippi And Ill
inois and Wisconsin each has
a Prentice.
There U & Stiles In Kentucky.
Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin,
as well aa the North Carolina
one In this county.
And Nebraska has a Flats,
an4 OMifl* ?n Eiltjay. s
LAND OPTIONED
AS SCHOOL SITE
FOR NANTAHALA
About 6 Acres In Owenby
Bottoms To Be Bought
By County Board
A cite for the proposed Nan
tahala school was optioned tnis
weett, It was announced by
County Supt. G. L. Houk.
The site chosen Is known as
the Owenby Bottoms, situated
at the Inter section 01 he Camp
Branch road and the Fores i
Service road that runs through
Nantahala, Mr. Houk sa'id.
The exact acreage will not be
known until the property is
surveyed and bounaanes de
ierm.ned, but a tract of about
four and a half acres Is being
bought from the Douthit heirs,
and approximately one acre, ad
joining, from Warren Own bey.
Alter the surveys are oompleted
and boundaries fixed, the prop
erty will be purchased, Mr. Houk
said.
His action in taking options
on the two tracts was in com
pliance with authority given by
the county board of education.
The board acted following a
recent visit of two members?
Chairman C. Gordon Moore and
Bob Sloan? and Mr. Houk to
the Nantahala section in search
of a site.
The place chosen, a fairly
level field with a creek nearby,
is near the site of the old Owen
by school. The three officials
who visited it expressed the be
lief that it is the best situation
available that is anywhere near
the center of the school popula
tion to be served.
Eastern Star
Plans Dinner,
Installation
The Eastern Star here, Ne
quassa Chapter 43, this Thurs
day) evening will hold a ban
quet honoring high ranking
officials of the order and later
in the evening will install its
new officers.
The banquet, honoring the
worthy grand matron, Miss
Ethel Lovett, of Asheville, and
the worthy grand patron, A. M.
Tingle, of Asheville, will be held
at Panorama court at 6 p. m.
The regular meeting is set for
7 p. m. at the Slagle Memorial
building, and at 8:30 the meet
ing will be opened for the in
stallation of new officers.
Miss Lovett will be in this
district, made up of the six most
westernly counties of the state,
all next week, and she and Mrs.
M&rgret Cabe, of Franklin,
district deputy grand matron,
will spend the week visiting the
nine chapters In the district.
The officers of the chapter
are:
Mrs. Florencs S. Sherrill, wor- :
thy matron; Edgar J. Whitaker,
re-elected worthy patron; Mrs. i
Josephine Long, associate mat
ron; John Bulgln, associate pa
tron; Mrs. Nobia Murray, re
elected secretary; Mrs. Alice
Ray, re-elected treasurer; Mrs.
Esther Cunningham, oonduct- '
ress; Mrs. Margaret Bolton, as
sociate conductress.
The appointees Include Mrs.
Ada Grant, Adah; Mrs. Emma
? Continued on Pace Six
'Prisoner' Escapes
After 10 Unhappy
Minutes In 'Jail'
Paul Smith, of Franklin,
Route 2, spent 10 or 15 uncom
fortable minjutes locked In an
unexpected "jail" late Saturday.
Mr. Smith can laugh about it
now, biut it wasn't funny at all .
it the time.
Interested In buying a truck,
Mr. Smith visited Burrell Motor
company's used car lot. The lot,
situated on East Main street, is
surrounded by a high fence of
heavy wire, so that the vehicles
can safely be left in the lot
overnight.
Finding a truck that appealed
to him, Mr. Smith took time to
examine it carefully, and finally
climbed into the cab?where he
was ,'nvisible from the lots street
entrance? for a look. Having sat
isfied himself, he earned out
md started to leave.
But in the meantime, a Bur
-ell employe had securely pad
locked the gate.
A trifle panicky, Mr. Smith
tried unsuccessfully to cltmi)
the fence. He looked, in vain,
for a vehicle parked close
enough to the fence to enable
h'm to scale the barricade
from a car top. He called iloud
but nobody heard h'm. At last,
he found the fire escape door
at the rear of the Macon Thea
tre, and loudly kicked on It to
attract attention from that
quarter. No luck!
Finally, however, the noiFf
was heard by Guve Wilson,
manager of Sossamon Furniture
company, who liberated the
"prisoner" by permitting him to
climb through the rear w ndow
of the furniture store, and thus
make hi* way to the street ?
nd freedom. .
RED CROSS HAS
$983 TO DATE
More Than Half Of Fund
Quota Turned In Or
Reported
Contributions so far reported
to the Red Cross fund drive
aere yesterday totaled $983.61,
3. G. Crawford, fund chairman,
announced. This represents
nearly 55 per cent of the coun
ty's $1,796 quota.
Of the total, $750.66 Is cash
delivered to Red Cross head
quarters here, and $232.95 is in
contributions reported by work
ers, but not yet turned in.
Meanwhile, Highlands will
have the "kick-off" dinner for
its local campaign tomorrow
(Friday) night, and will make
its drive on Saturday.
Most of the funds raised to
date have been outright dona
tions, but Mr. Crawford report
ed that the Clark's Chapel com
munity held a benefit bingo
party and cake walk, sponsored
by a committee headed by Mrs.
Hazel Sutton, last Saturday
n'ght, at which $28.85 was rais
ed.
Several workers in town and
a. number in the rural communi
ties have not reported, Mr.
Crawford said, adding that they ;
? Continued on Page Si> ,
20,000 Pounds
Of Macon Tobacco Sold, |
Federation Told
More than 20,000 pounds of
/obacoo grown in this county
vas sold on the floors of the
deration and Carolina ware
houses in Ashev:lle this season,
Macon County stockholders in I
;he Farmers Federation were l
/old at their annual meeting
ast Monday at the Federation |
itore here.
The figures were cited by Max |
Roberts, the Federation's educa
lonal ' directo, who also has |
charge of tobacco sales.
More than 100 person jvere I
jresent to hear talks by James |
>. K. McClure, president, S. "W
rfendenha'l. county agent here
ind Mr. Roberts. Members of
he staff of the local store were
eo agnized.
The stockholders reelected all |
nembers of the county com
nlttee and directors and added |
?everal new names to the list.
The annual d'rector's meetlne I
n Asheville will be held March |
!?, it. wps announced.
Follow'ng the business sea
Ion, refreshments were served. ;
MILLION SEEK
RECREATION IN
FORESTAREAS
Thi? County To Receive
$8,500 F rom Timber
Sale Receipts
The Nantahala National FTor
est attracted nearly 1,000,000 re
creational visitors last year, it
was announced this week at the
forest headquarters here.
The Forest Service's estimate,
based on counts at various
points at different times during
the year, is 978,000. In a six
weeks period a counter indicated
35,000 persons visited Arrowood
Glade picnic area alone ? and
this was during August and Sep
tember, after the outbreak of
last summer's polio epidemic.
In connection with the totals,
E. W. Renshaw, forest supervis
or, pointed out that two nation
al organizations and one sec
tional group held conventions
on the Nantahala Forest last
year.
In a summary of Forest Ser
vice activities, Mr. Rensb^w
touched on timber sales, fire
control, fish and wlldll'e coop
eration with the state, and
research, as well as recreation.
Timber cut on the Nantahala
Forest during, the fiscal year
ending last June 30 totaled 42.
156,000 board feet This r pre
sented a value of *105,726, to
which was added 472 ton of
banbark taken from the fc-e-t,
which sold for $728; banging
the gross receipts from fnrest
products to *106,454. Approrl
matelv $18 000 o' this came
from the salvage of 14 685 bo-rd
feet of chestnut extractwcod.
After re'unds to operators
and exchange ohli^tlo^s. the
net receipts totaled $89 757.11. of
which 25 ner cent will he re
turned to Macn. Clav, Chero
kee, Oraham. Swain and Jiek
son eounties. in which the for
est lies, in lieu of taxes.
Th's 25 per cent ? $22,439 ?
will be forwarded shortly fmm
Washington to Raleigh <md w<11
be distributed bv the sta te
treasurer to six counties. Since
near'v 40 per cent of the Va-n
tahala Forest lies in Macon
County, this cmintv will re~,"?
nearlv 40 ner cent of the total
ir about $8,500.
Another 10 Der cent of the
total timber receipts of the for
est. representing about *9 ooo.
will be returned to be snen.t on
roads and trails In the forest.
A decrease in fire losses w?<
?oted In 1948. Mr. Pensh^w said.
During the year. 442 acres was
burned over bv 35 fires, as c"m
pared with 729 aeres burned
over in 1947 by 40 fires.
"Incendiarism continues to be
our greatest concern, as 46 per
cent of the fires and nearlv 70
per cent of the area burned re
? Continued on Page Four
Declines To Accept
Parker Resignation
The Rev. Charles E. Parker
last Sunday morning resigned
is pastor of the First Baptist
ihurch here, but the congrega
tion voted not to accept the
resignation. Mr. Parker, who had
i call to the church at Myrtle
Beach, S. C., announced at the
evening service that, in view
)f the congregation's, attitude,
ie would remain here.
PLAN RUMMAGE SALE
A rummage sale will be held
>n Main street here Saturday
nornlng, it has been announc
ed, as a benefit for the new
Assembly of God church at Cul
asaja.
AUTO REGISTRATIONS UP
U. S. automobile registrations
ncreased eight per cent last
rear over 1947, and truck and
>us registrations were up 10 per
:ent for the same period.
The Weather
Temperatures and preclplta
lon for the past seven days,
md the low temperature ye?
erday, as recorded at the
ToweeUi Experiment station.
Wednesday 68 37 .00
["hursday *1 36 .52
'rlday 54 24 .00
laturday 55 '4 .00
lunday 56 26 .00
rtandav 53 W .no
*uesday 47 23 .00
Vtdntidiy ? 10 JO